Nikolaj

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Николай (Nikolay), a Russian form of Nicolai [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Nicolai

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nikolajsen Denmark
Nikolajsson Iceland

Female

Nikolajsdatter Denmark
Nikolajsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nikolaj
Genitive: Nikolajs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Nikolaj
Genitive: Nikolaj'n
Partitive: Nikolaj'ta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Nikolaj
Accusative: Nikolaj
Dative: Nikolaj
Genitive: Nikolajs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nikolaj
Genitive: Nikolajs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nikolaj
Genitive: Nikolajs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Nikolaj Frobenius (born 29 September 1965), Norwegian novelist and screen writer
  • Nikolaj Lie Kaas (born 22 May 1973), Danish actor

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 53 people were named Nikolaj (percentage of first or only given name: 55 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[7]
9866
n.a.
0
n.a.
9866
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
392 773 2 4 390 769
Greenland Greenland[9]
155 666
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
245 0 0
n.a.
245
Iceland Iceland[11]
7 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
146
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
146
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Nikolaj (m) Sources: [8][7][12][10]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Nikolaj (m) Sources: [13]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. details see Name Statistic tables